Bernini's Early Masterpieces

Bernini's Early Masterpieces Bernini's earliest water fountain, named Barcaccia, is a breath taking work of art seen at the bottom of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. To this day, you will see Roman residents and vacation goers occupying this area to revel in chit chatter and being among other people. The streets surrounding his water fountain have come to be one of the city’s most stylish meeting places, something which would certainly have pleased Bernini himself. In around 1630, Pope Urbano VIII helped Bernini start off his career with the construction of his very first water fountain. Depicted in the fountain's design is a great vessel slowly sinking into the Mediterranean Sea. According to 16th century reports, a great flood of the Tevere covered the entire area in water, an event which was memorialized by the magnificent fountain. In 1665 Bernini journeyed to France, in what was to be his only prolonged absence from Italy.

Rome’s First Water Delivery Solutions

Rome’s First Water Delivery Solutions Prior to 273, when the first elevated aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was built in Roma, inhabitants who lived on hillsides had to travel further down to gather their water from natural sources. When aqueducts or springs weren’t available, people dwelling at raised elevations turned to water drawn from underground or rainwater, which was made possible by wells and cisterns. In the very early 16th century, the city began to use the water that ran underground through Acqua Vergine to furnish drinking water to Pincian Hill. Rome’s First Water Delivery Solutions 224983355594.jpg

The aqueduct’s channel was made reachable by pozzi, or manholes, that were added along its length when it was first built. Although they were primarily planned to make it possible to support the aqueduct, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi began using the manholes to accumulate water from the channel, opening when he obtained the property in 1543. Reportedly, the rainwater cistern on his property wasn’t adequate to fulfill his needs. Through an orifice to the aqueduct that ran below his property, he was in a position to suit his water desires.

Statues As a Staple of Vintage Art in Archaic Greece

Statues As a Staple of Vintage Art in Archaic Greece Up until the Archaic Greeks introduced the very first freestanding statuary, a noteworthy achievement, carvings had mainly been accomplished in walls and pillars as reliefs. For the most part the statues, or kouros figures, were of adolescent and nice-looking male or female (kore) Greeks. Considered by Greeks to characterize beauty, the kouroi were created into rigid, forward facing poses with one foot outstretched, and the male statues were usually nude, well-built, and fit. In around 650 BC, the differences of the kouroi became life-sized. Throughout the Archaic time, a great time of change, the Greeks were developing new types of government, expressions of art, and a better understanding of people and cultures outside Greece. Wars like The Arcadian wars, the Spartan invasion of Samos, and other wars between city-states are indicatory of the disruptive nature of the time, which was similar to other periods of historical disturbance. However, these conflicts did not significantly hinder the advancement of the Greek civilization.